Alright. Before you ream this little n00b, know that I have read pretty much EVERY forum in this place, and have tried everything.

So. I have a Mac, Limewire, and a college connection. I just moved in about a month ago, and Limewire hasn't worked ONCE for me yet. When I was at home, it worked like a charm. Now I have to deal with a router (Cisco uBR942) and a university internect connection. It says I have a firewall, but everytime I force a proxy and a new port, it still says the same thing. I've tried about a dozen different ports (even port 80) and still no luck. All the "Check Your Ports" don't work for me.

Also, I've tried setting up a static IP, incase it's not the school's ISP that's blocking the port and it's the router I've got my ethernet hooked up to. But I can't find directions on how to do it on a Mac.

In addition, a friend of mine in my dorm has a different p2p program, and she can download things. I can download pages, things I find on the internet, widgets, all of it. So maybe it's not that the school's restricting bandwith?

Anyone care to help?

Is there anyone out there that's able to connect to the Gnutella network? I have tried many p2p programs and can't get any of them to connect. Could it be that ISP's are now filtering due to litigation and pending litigation involving file sharing issues?

Most universtities/colleges block or at least filter p2p sharing nowadays. Here's an example of how a p2p bandwidth shaper can work: Bandwidth Shaper Sample - typical of how some ISP's use it (click on link) ie: giving priority to net surfing & low priorities to p2p sharing. And low priority to Gnutella programs. Well consider them generous, b/c many uni's/colleges totally block p2p sharing now.

hi im new to the limewire but i havin trouble with it as i could see mostly everyone here havin problem with it too. anyway. when i use limewire i tend to lost the connection to the internet very often. i could connect to the internet but for some reason. limwire lostes the connection very easy and and cant barely use it much. i dont know y i dont have this problem wit any other p2p program. can someone help

lilangel did you configure your firewall so it allows LW full access (advisable not to have 2 active firewalls b/c they can interfere with each other); Firewall configuration instructions (click on link)

Can you give us a total desciption of your set up:
1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98)
2. What firewalls you have?
3. How much ram?
4. Hard Disk space available?
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
7. Where are you trying to connect from (home, school, work, etc.)?
8. What version of Limewire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
9. Who is your isp provider?
10. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
11. Do this test: Bug Report instructions & sample image Is the result True/False?

* Don't use the Resume button/find sources button on all incomplete files. This can have side-fx such as affect LW's connection quality. May queue your files for much much longer. This will also stress LW & your comp. If you use Resume/Find sources then just apply it to a couple or so at one time.

See the following link & follow “ALL” the off-shoot links to find hints & extra skills to help solve your problem: To continue files downlding (click on link)

i permit limwire to be able to access the internet
im usin window xp
as for firewall im usin norton but im allow program to access internet
as for ram i have no clue.
hard drive space well let see in the c drieve i have a total of 1762 GB and in the d dirve i have a total of 3GB left
connection time well i know it not dial up. i think is well i dont really know what it really consider as but i know it a high sped connection
im usin belkin as my rounter
im connecting from home
for lw i have version 4.9.29 and as for java i have 1.4.2_03
for my internet im usin somethin call directway. i dont think much pple know of that
well i have to share the connection with my sister and brother by usin the belkin router and as for p2p program the only thing that im usin is bitcomit

i permit limwire to be able to access the internet
im usin window xp
as for firewall im usin norton but im allow program to access internet
as for ram i have no clue.
hard drive space well let see in the c drieve i have a total of 1762 GB and in the d dirve i have a total of 3GB left
connection time well i know it not dial up. i think is well i dont really know what it really consider as but i know it a high sped connection
im usin belkin as my rounter
im connecting from home
for lw i have version 4.9.29 and as for java i have 1.4.2_03
for my internet im usin somethin call directway. i dont think much pple know of that
well i have to share the connection with my sister and brother by usin the belkin router and as for p2p program the only thing that im usin is bitcomit
i check the recievin thing in th option toolbar and i gotfalse or fail or somethin like that

holy i mean im sorry i didnt mean to dowuble post i got diconnected when i try to summit the post so i thought tha it didnt go throught so i try it again. im rieally sorry. for the double post